Reefs.com iPhone App

Posted on April 24, 2012 by

In about a week, the crew over at Reefs.com will be releasing a coral identification database for their already established Reefs Mobile App. We’re delighted to be the first line of corals featured in the Reefs App Coral Database!  All of ORA’s coral photos and descriptions will now be available in the palm of your hand for on the go identification.  Hopefully this handy app will help answer some of your ORA Coral questions when there’s no computer within reach. Head over to their site to lean more about it!

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Pink Stylophora – Now available from ORA

Posted on April 16, 2012 by

After an 8 year holiday Pink Stylophora is back on our availability list. We’ve picked an awesome strain that grows in tight little colonies with small branches. This is one of the nicest pink varieties we’ve seen.  The color ranges from dark pink in shaded areas to vivid magenta in high light. Head over to the product page for more details.

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How’s My Swimming? – Part II

Posted on March 09, 2012 by

We promised a video showing how our van was turned into a giant clownfish when we first posted the story on February 28th.  We must say, the crew at Carwrapsolutions.com really came through on this one.  They shot and edited this video for us depicting the application process on every side of the vehicle.  We had no idea how much work actually went into this!  Check it out.

 

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How’s My Swimming?

Posted on February 28, 2012 by

Part 1 of 2.

What’s black, white and orange and looks “funny” driving down the highway?  ORA’s new Clownmobile.
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Lost and Found

Posted on February 17, 2012 by

Amphiprion leucokranos shortly after arriving at ORA.

Three years ago Brian from Ocean Gallery II in New Jersey imported a beautiful pair of young clownfish from the Solomon Islands.  Upon arrival there was some uncertainty about their identity.  It was unclear if they were Amphiprion leucokranos or Amphiprion thiellei but as they grew older it became apparent that they were in fact A. leucokranos, the Whitebonnet Clownfish.   The pair was housed in one of the store’s 40 gallon aquariums filled with Rose Bubble Tip Anemones. Brian treated the pair as his personal pets and they doubled in size under his care.  Approximately 9 months ago they started spawning.   Clownfish aficionados know how hard this species of clownfish is to find, let alone a pair of them, so a spawning pair is exceptionally exciting.
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ORA Confusa – Now Available!

Posted on January 13, 2012 by

ORA Confusa

This week we are adding another coral to our availability list, the ORA Confusa.  Read more about this beauty on the product page Here.

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McCulloch’s Clownfish

Posted on November 22, 2011 by

ORA Mccullochi Clown

ORA has added another species to its list of captive bred Marine Ornamentals, McCulloch’s Clownfish (Amphiprion mccullochi).  This success story is a little different from others we have shared in the past.  This time we didn’t actually breed the fish but we did raise the larvae. Continue reading →

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Site Update

Posted on November 21, 2011 by

We have just completed a few small changes to the site.

- All of our product pages now have navigation tabs above the image to the right of the title.  These tabs will allow you to scroll through the products in a given category without having to repeatedly use the back button.

- Social Media sharing buttons have been added to each of the product pages.  Now you can share your favorite ORA products with your friends on Facebook, Twitter and Google+.

We hope that these new features enhance your experience on our website.  It is a great time to have another look through our massive selection of Captive Bred and Aquacultured products, be sure to let your friends know which ones you like best!  Click here to get started.
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Grube’s Gorgonian – New From ORA

Posted on October 30, 2011 by

ORA Grube's Gorgonian

ORA is proud to offer a new soft coral from our collection, Grube’s Gorgonian (Pinnigorgia flava). Grube’s (pronounced Grooba’s) Gorgonian is a graceful, thin-branched octocoral that can be described as tan to pink in color with similarly colored polyps. We obtained this coral from Julian Sprung and we’ve been impressed by its hardiness and rapid growth. It has an extensive history in the Aquarium Hobby which Julian was glad to share with us:
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Red Planet Growth Sequence

Posted on August 26, 2011 by

 

While looking through our photo archives we realized that we had a pretty cool series of photos that showed the growth progression of one of the biggest corals in our greenhouse.  We got our first piece of this iconic coral in May of 2006 and our first photos are dated in September of that year.  In the beginning we were taking fragments off of the original piece but at some point we stopped and let it grow naturally.  Over the years there were plenty of  accidents that lead to breakage and a few areas that died back due to a lack of light.  Nonetheless it has grown into an impressive piece.

Check out the gallery below:

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